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🌞 Fun fact: Scrum was created in the time of ICQ, AOL Instant messenger and Skype. Is Scrum just really a reaction to the fact that developers don't know how to talk to other people? Developers...

Standup meetings Why have a Teams channel where everyone can post what they are struggling with, so anyone can respond to help and start a 1-on-1 call. If we can have 15-min meetings informing...

Complexity <> Sophisticated It can be just overly complex, because the person who created it didn't understand it well enough. Teachers face the challenge of breaking down complex subjects for...

The Scrum ticket system You're churning out tickets, classified as 'features', that strongly resemble clean-up tasks. Are all team members solely focused on their own individual ticket? This surely...

5 reasons NOT to automate. This might sound odd coming from me, a staunch advocate of automation. However, beware! If you're handling a process for the first, second or third time, don't rush to...

Justifying marketing is hard. Generating awareness and traffic is hard to quantify. What is the ROI for marketing? The reason is the distance to the sale transaction. How further away how harder it...

Be a T-shape developer I always advocate developers to specialize when they are becoming senior. But don't lose track of the rest of the playfield. So be broad, know a lot of technologies and areas,...

OpenTelemetry for Dataverse ServiceClient? I love OpenTelemetry. It's so easy to plug in instrumentation and have a clear view of your distributed system. But Dataverse ServiceClient doesn't have it...

Nobody cares about bad code if it works. Besides you and your team, others don't care about the bad code that exists in your codebase. Management will not give you time to make the code better. So...

Locality of Behavior principle (LoB): "The behavior of a unit of code should be as obvious as possible by looking only at that unit of code." This principle is starting to get more and more...

'Functions need to do one thing'-mantra is wrong. Since Robert C. Marting wrote the book Clean Code, developers try to implement the guidelines from that book. One of them is to write Small focused...